Friends of Ours: Tenth Amendment

07/01/2012

California Liberals Get Schooled On Federal Power

California liberals finally are understanding the conservative case for state's rights under the Tenth Amendment as they watch their local medical marijuana laws go up in smoke from an encroaching federal government as reported by Norimitsu Onishi for The New York Times: "acting on federal law, which considers all possession and distribution of marijuana to be illegal, California's four United States attorneys, working with the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Internal Revenue Service, have shut down at least 500 dispensaries statewide in the last eight months by sending letters to operators, landlords and local officials, warning of criminal charges and the seizure of assets."

09:44 AM in Asset Seizure, Drug Legalization, Drug Trafficking, Medical Marijuana, Tenth Amendment | Permalink

07/15/2010

Cleaning House

Pete Du Pont: Hillary Clinton for President . . . Poll: ex-Obama voters like Mitt Romney

Small business owners uneasy with Obama

Sen. Jeff Sessions on Elena Kagan: "filibuster is not off the table"

So-called finance reform bill packed with unrelated gifts to Democrat interest groups

Ethics probe targets lawmakers' fundraisers

Four indicted San Jacinto, CA councilmen face recall election

Tightening the noose in Cuyahoga County, OH corruption probe

Last defendant in Dallas, TX City Hall corruption case goes to trial Oct. 21

11:49 AM in Cleaning House, Dale Stubblefield, Frank Russo, Illegal Immigation, Jan Brewer, Jim Ayres, Jimmy Dimora, John Mansperger, Mitt Romney, Political Corruption, Public Corruption, Tenth Amendment, Vince Russo | Permalink

07/13/2010

Many Tea Party Members Support Court Ruling Striking Down Federal Ban On Gay Marriage

Although the likes of Keith Olbermann and Janeane Garofalo smugly attempt to marginalize the Tea Party movement by falsely stating that it is populated by anachronistic racists, homophobes and rednecks, the fact is that many actually are supportive of the recent U.S. District Court decision out of Massachusetts which struck down the federal ban on gay marriage -- signed into law by President Clinton and defended in court by President Obama, incidentally -- as reported by Sandhya Somashekhar for The Washington Post:

[M]any said they back the decision because it emphasizes the legal philosophy of states' rights. * * * "I do think it's a state's right," said Phillip Dennis, Texas state coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots. The group does not take a position on social issues, he said, but personally, "I believe that if the people in Massachusetts want gay people to get married, then they should allow it . . . ." * * * Everett Wilkinson, state director for the Florida Tea Party Patriots, agreed: "On the issue [of gay marriage] itself, we have no stance, but any time a state's rights or powers are encouraged over the federal government, it is a good thing." * * * Wilkinson said "several hundred" of the group's supporters are gay.

Indeed, perhaps expressly thinking of those ignorant fools Olbermann and Garofalo, Burns Strider wrote over at The Huffington Post that the Democrats have wrongly concluded that the Tea Party "folks must all be racist, conservative, backward crazies":

Polling has also showed that the majority of Tea Party activists do not think government should support any set of moral values or define marriage. And a sizable majority of Tea Party activists are pro-choice. Think about that. Most Tea Party members hold positions that, in our completely un-nuanced political speak, make them "pro-gay and pro-choice."

It's a shame that Olbermann and Garofalo never listened to Bob Dylan because as he sang in "The Times They Are A-Changin": "Don't criticize what you can't understand."